(1) The "Hawaiian" (lap steel) guitar is also an electric guitar. This means it can be FELT as well as heard.
(2) I think the rhythms of the steel guitar correspond EXACTLY to the rhythms of sex. For at least 50 years this kind of music was used by a LOT of people for baby-making purposes! Avante-garde pedal steel player Susan Alcorn,admits that part of steel guitar playing has sexual climaxes in it,LOL!!
(3) I don't think it's an accident that a certain big plastic ukulele (made by Mattel in 1957) was colored red-and-black (fetish colors).
(4) The eroticism associated with steel guitar music also explains why (until recently) few wahines ever played it.Also,in 1969,certain Japanese "men's" magazines ran photos of comely wahines with (guess what-plastic ukes) coyly covering their genital regions....

The above is all a function of guitar fetishism. Mixing sex with music is essential to human culture,and is "socially redeeming". I hope someday someone will make a movie about guitar fetishism...observing my copyrights,of course! (I'd heard about 20 years ago,that somebody was going to make a documentary called "The Wild Thing" with such musicians as Bonnie Raitt...but nothing seems to have come of that.)

Yes,I heard that in the mid-50's (when I was just a tyke) all people did was sit at home and listen to the "Arthur Godfrey" Show!

In the conservative Fifties there wasn't much of a way to express erotic feeling except through sophisticated culture. Back then,non-marital sex was considered "bad taste" on the Mainland. So,more excuses to go to the Islands...

I remember the liner notes on one Hawaiian music LP. "Children listening to this music are too young to know
WHAT THIS MUSIC IS FOR!" Hee,hee.

Polynesian eroticism will always be with us. It's eternal. It's the best.